Start with the news release Amulet develops OS colour chip for LCDs from Advanced Power Components (APC), which we summarised at the time by saying "Amulet Technologies has announced the introduction of its first colour graphical OS chip for LCDs and touch panels, now available in the UK through specialist distributor Advanced Power Components. ". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Dual-port memories are fast and frugal from IDT: "High-speed synchronous dual-port devices allow designers to optimise systems for greater performance and lower power.".
 
In July 2008, we covered the news from Micrel - take a look at Ethernet controller has all options covered which says: "High throughput embedded Ethernet controller features industry support for the SPI interface and a small package option for a generic bus interface.".
 
Take a look also at the news release from Lattice Semiconductor UK, FPGAs make the automotive grade, as well as Bridges control UARTs to accelerate serial comms from Pericom Semiconductor Corp, and ARM9-based MCUs come with up to 512Kbyte of Flash from Atmel Corporation.